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File under: Field RecordingsMusique Concrète
2025 stock The idea of Grains of Voices was born when Åke Parmerud was commissioned to write a work for the Swedish Radio. A journey around the world, recording the different inflections of the human voice then followed and the material was processed in the studio to make this electro-acoustic composition.
Grains of Voices is an electro-acoustic mix, a collage of voices from all over the world – singing, talking and shouting. The work was premiered in the Dag Hammarskjöld auditorium, in the UN headquarters in New York during the celebration of the UN day in 1997. This initiative came from the director of the Swedish Electro-acoustic studio, Ulf Stenberg. This suggestion met the approval of Kofi Annan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, and Samir Sanbar, assistant secretary general.
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File under: Field RecordingsMusique Concrète
Cat. number: CAP 21579
Year: 1997
Notes:
"This is a special release, marking the performance of the composition in the Dag Hammarskjöld auditorium of the UN building in New York on United Nations Day, 24th October 1997."
Field recordings made between February & May 1994.
Additional recordings made in Sweden during the summer and autumn 1994.
Edited from May to October 1994.
Archive material taken from Bibliotheca national de Venezuela and Sveriges radio.
Composed, processed and mixed between September 1994 and July 1995.
Grains of voices was commisionned by Sveriges radio and represented Sweden at Prix Italia 1997.
Booklet in English.
Caprice Records [P]+[C] 1994
Made in Austria
